Itoman City

Port boats fly flags at Lunar New Year.

Big-catch flags, Itoman Port

01 ／ Itoman Fishing Tools

Women's peddling gear joins the fishing toolsin the collection.

The Itoman fishing tools, registered in 2026 as a national Registered Tangible Folk Cultural Property, include mikagan (undersea goggles), sabani boat gear, and tools for agiya, a diving drive-fishing method. Also collected are the sales tools women used for peddling, for the men who went out to fish.

Registered 24 March 2026 by official gazette notice
887 items in the Agency for Cultural Affairs report
Includes sales tools women used for peddling

02 ／ Gushikawa Castle Site

A castle with cliffs on three sides except near the gate,and a hole that leads to the sea.

A national historic site in Kyan, Itoman. The city calls it the southernmost gusuku (Ryukyuan castle site) on Okinawa's main island. It stands on a sea-eroded cliff about 17 m high jutting into the sea, and inside is a hole called Hifuchimi that leads to the sea. A castle site of the same name stands in Kumejima Town.

Sea-eroded cliff about 17 m high
Finds from the late 12th to mid-15th century
Designated a national historic site on 15 May 1972

03 ／ Yonosuke Port at Odo

Not handing out the relief money as it was,jobs were made by opening a harbor mouth in the reef.

In the great drought of 1904, Saito Yonosuke, then head of Shimajiri District, chose not to hand out the relief money as it was; to create jobs through public works, he began cutting through the reef off today's Odo Beach. The port was completed in 1907, letting boats come and go even at low tide.

Great drought of 1904
Completed December 1907
2009: Japan Society of Civil Engineers Selected Civil Engineering Heritage

Living here

No railway station; the gateway is Itoman Bus Terminal.

about 60,000 people

There is no railway station in the city. Okinawa Bus's route list shows routes 34, 35 and 89 from Naha Bus Terminal arriving at Itoman Bus Terminal, and route 36 also starts there. The city describes its location as the southern tip of Okinawa's main island, 12 km south of Naha.

People living here: 61,007people
Area: 46.6km²
Households: 23,272households
Rent (average for rentals): 45,517yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 30 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —22 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 2 municipalities.

Itoman City in Japan26.123°N 127.666°E

Territory of Itoman City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

10.5km

豊見城市, 八重瀬町

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Itoman City isthis kind of town.

01At Itoman Port, boats across the harbor fly big-catch flags at Lunar New Year to pray for a good catch, and on the 4th day of the 5th old-calendar month the boat-race festival Hare is held to pray for big catches and safe voyages
02The Itoman fishing tools, 887 items in the Agency for Cultural Affairs report, collect the various tools Itoman fishermen used along with sales tools women used for peddling, and were registered in 2026 as a national Registered Tangible Folk Cultural Property
03The stone lion of Teruya, a Hiigeeshi set to stare down Mount Yaese, once feared as the mountain of fire, was designated a city tangible cultural property in 1977, and a Hiigeeshi prayer is held in the 10th old-calendar month

See the town as it is now.

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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